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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After speaking to several school board members.  It seems like Sandy came in wanting boundary changes to be her lasting legacy and there has never been any discussion on why.

almost no one wants to be moved, yet instead of listening to reasons from the people it actually effects, she has blinders on and continues to push forward.   The job is too big for the firm they hired and are in over their heads. (Confirmed by people on the committee) The pushback from nearly all communities asking to step back and not rush into these changes has fallen on deaf ears. SA has flat out said she doesn’t care if she doesn’t get re elected.  She’s bulldozing the entire boundary review even while other board members have said to slow down and re evaluate trends, especially with the RIFs and people moving from this area.   The random shuffling of neighborhoods does nothing for the bigger issue and as the home owners age fluctuates, it just leads everything to need to be changed again in 10 years.

It’s extremely frustrating and my personal conversations with her have left me feeling that she absolutely does not care what anyone thinks.  She’s flippant and honestly, obnoxious in her responses.   Telling me about people who live on the “wrong side of the parkway” and I should be happy I’m not getting switched to XYZ.   As the top ranked member of the school board, she absolutely should not make comments about how any school is less than another.  She should be an advocate and a supporter of making all FCPS schools strong and singing their praises, not just telling us we are lucky we don’t have to go there.

I want to get to the bottom of why she is so adamant about this being her legacy, which one of her financial supporters is it benefiting [/quote]

It has to be some person who is in the current RV/Lewis pocket, right? She is the only one who keeps talking about those neighborhoods staying at Irving/WSHS where none of the maps so far have showed that move. That or she is a hardcore equity warrior. But honestly, I can imagine what hardcore equity moves might look like and they don’t look like the weird, piecemeal shifting around of neighborhoods that we’ve seen so far. [/quote]

Those Rolling Valley/Key/Lewis neighborhoods were neve zoned for West Springfield.

Thru moving their elementary from Rolling Valley to Saratoga makes perfect sense.  Saratoga is the exact same distance as Rolling Valley, and limits their change to just elementary and not high school.

Moving that Lewis neighborhood to WSHS, when Anderson is also saying WSHS [i]must[/i] be rezoned because of overcrowding makes no sense.

My gut says either a political donor, a coworker, or someone with a close personal connection owns property in that Rolling Valley Lewis neighborhood, because SAs idea is so out of left field and makes no sense in the context of the rezoning process.[/quote]

It is so out of left field, yet and she us they she needs to help advocate for this RVES/Lewis pocket, because they don’t have as much advocacy on their end…as if we, a group of working parents have extra time and resources to advocate? We are not dissimilar to this pocket. We are many civil servants, teachers, military members who are just trying to do our best to advocate. It was an odd comment. [/quote]

She isn't advocating for poor families.

Much of that area are the nicest houses zoned for Rolling Valley.  They are owned by upper middle class people, not poor people.[/quote]

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